reductio ad absurdum

form of argument in informal logic
Thing type Q14402006
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reductio ad absurdum

Summary

reductio ad absurdum is a type[1]. It draws 1,203 Wikipedia views per month (type category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • reductio ad absurdum's video is recorded as Beweise - Quatematik.webm[3].
  • reductio ad absurdum's instance of is recorded as type[4].
  • reductio ad absurdum's subclass of is recorded as argument[5].
  • reductio ad absurdum's said to be the same as is recorded as proof by contradiction[6].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05_5pnq[7].
  • reductio ad absurdum's has cause is recorded as law of noncontradiction[8].
  • reductio ad absurdum's described at URL is recorded as https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Reductio-ad-Absurdum[9].
  • reductio ad absurdum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • reductio ad absurdum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • reductio ad absurdum's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[12].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/reductio-ad-absurdum[13].
  • reductio ad absurdum's MathWorld ID is recorded as ReductioadAbsurdum[14].
  • reductio ad absurdum's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as reductio-ad-absurdum[15].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as reductio_ad_absurdum[16].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as reductio-ad-absurdum-logik[17].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ID is recorded as reductio[18].
  • reductio ad absurdum's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[19].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 121649496[20].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as apagoge[21].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as dimostrazione-per-assurdo[22].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Treccani's Dizionario di Filosofia ID is recorded as reduction-ad-absurdum[23].
  • reductio ad absurdum's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 05833309-n[24].
  • reductio ad absurdum's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C121649496[25].
  • reductio ad absurdum's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as reduccio-a-labsurd[26].

Why It Matters

reductio ad absurdum draws 1,203 Wikipedia views per month (type category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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